NEW SHOW! Episode 1: “The Godfather Part II” with Roxana Hadadi
A podcast about the great movies.
Don’t worry — we didn’t sell your email address to some other podcast you didn’t subscribe to. A Very Good Year hosts Jason Bailey and Mike Hull have retired that show (ran out of very good years!) and have evolved it into a new podcast: Guide for the Film Fanatic.
In each episode, Bailey and Hull invite a guest from the world of film (including filmmakers, authors, critics, actors, and more) to select one of the 1600+ “must-see movies” collected in Danny Peary’s seminal 1986 book, Guide for the Film Fanatic. Bailey, Hull, and their guests deep dive on each film, discussing its history, themes, style, performances, initial reception, and legacy, taking a fresh look at some of the most beloved titles in cinema history.
And our first episode is out now! In this week’s edition, we are joined by Vulture TV critic and longtime friend Roxana Hadadi, who explains her personal, familial connection to Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 Oscar-winner The Godfather Part II, and joins in a spirited discussion of the picture’s virtues, flaws, and reputation.
Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. We’re partnering up with One Heat Minute Productions on this show, so we’re migrating it over to their feed; subscribe now if you haven’t already.
We’re also putting our new episodes up on YouTube! Watch the show on our YouTube channel, @dannypearyrocks, for visual accompaniment and bonus stuff and who knows what else.
You can read Vincent Canby’s New York Times review here, Roger Ebert’s Chicago Sun-Times review here, Charles Champlin’s Los Angeles Times review here, and Pauline Kael’s New Yorker review here. And you can check out the full New York Times from the movie’s opening day here.
If you’d like to read Roxana’s work at Vulture, check it out here — including the pieces we discussed on Babygirl and Observe and Report. If you’d like to check out the YouTube page for Mike’s other podcast, Black Diplomats, it’s here. And if you’d like to pre-order Jason’s new book Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the Life of a Legend, you can pre-order it from Bookshop and Barnes & Noble.
Last but not least, if you’d like to make a little donation to support us and the show, you can do that at Ko-fi!